How do you build your immune system?

Answer 1

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To develop immunity, you need to have had the initial infection so that you have memory cells, (B lymphocytes that have not been entirely destroyed and so act as memory cells, recognising the pathogen(s) that try to re-enter your body), and therefore primed for a quick response. This is often called ACTIVE IMMUNITY.

Answer 2

The body's immune system is very complex and so to build it up takes many avenues. The first and most important need is sleep. The body heals itself while you sleep. Second, is good nutrition. The body needs many vitamins and minerals as building blocks and catalysts for enzyme activity to do its job. So eat fresh fruits and vegetables daily! Those canned veggies are dead and do not contain live enzymes so you need fresh ones daily for the energy and nutrients. Heat also destroys valuable vitamins so don't cook them til they droop. Cook only til crisp tender, but fresh is always better. But even our foods are deficient in the vitamins they are supposed to contain due to the many chemicals put on the ground to force them to grow, the time it takes for transporting to the market and the time they sit on the shelf they lose nutrition, so taking extra multiple vitamins is necessary.

Some of the most important vitamins needed when you feel illness coming on is vitamin C. This is found in citrus fruits in large amounts but in other fruits as well, but an extra pill or two is necessary during illness. Start with small doses like 250-500mg tabs once a day and build up to 3-8,000 mg daily spread out through out the day for managing a cold. It acts as an antihistamine and if taken in sufficient quantities and you want the kind with bioflavonoids (which is found in the white part of the orange peel). Then as your cold gets better, you need to gradually decrease or taper off the vitamin C so your body doesn't think it has a deficiency and develop sore gums. Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin, so you pass what you don't use hourly. But if you take too much you may get gas build up or loose stool. If this happens, just back off a little on the vitamin C.

Vitamin A is also crucial for good health especially of the mucus membranes of the nose, throat, mouth and lungs. It can be taken in a capsule or by liquid cod liver oil. 10,000 IU is the USDA minimum daily allowance but you need more when you are sick. 30,000-50,000 IU daily to combat illness but not for more than a couple of weeks.

Garlic is good to kill germs of various kinds. Since eating raw garlic is not very pleasant, the capsules may be taken to get more bang for your buck. For combating a cold take 4 capsules twice daily. That, along with some good pro-biotics. That is the opposite of antibiotics which kill bad bacteria. They add the good bacteria back into your intestines where they fight bad bacteria. PB8 has a good assortment of these good bacteria. And don't take just one a day as it may say on the bottle. You need 4-8 per day. But if you take an antibiotic you kill them off and really need a lot more to build them back up. You should always take acidophilus (one form of probiotic) after every antibiotic. There is no such thing as overdosing on them.

This is a good start on being healthy. Exercise is also good. Daily doses help build up your good health and some sonshine is very good too as it is necessary for the skin to produce vitamin D. This vitamin keeps us feeling good, so a lack causes depressed mood. It is now known that it can help build up the bones, and relieve some pain of Arthritis. It is necessary for absorbing calcium. It can be taken in large doses up to 1,000 IU daily.

Answer 3

receive a vaccine, which causes development of antibodies

receive antibodies from their mother during or shortly after birth

be exposed to the disease and develop antibodies naturally